Network Automation Engineer – Data Center Fabrics

Mistral; France; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Mistral, a leader in full-stack AI solutions, seeks a Software Engineer, Network Automation - Data Center Fabrics to design and build systems for operating large-scale networks in our data centers.

You will apply deep networking expertise to leaf-spine architectures, automation, testing, and production troubleshooting across EVPN/VXLAN, BGP, VRFs, and related technologies, with Go and production-grade software practices.

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on experience with Ethernet switching, IP routing, BGP-based leaf-spine fabrics, EVPN/VXLAN, and VRF-based multitenancy.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve leaf-spine underlays, EVPN/VXLAN overlays, and tenant connectivity for multi-tenant AI infrastructure.
• Translate data-center fabric requirements and safety properties into clear APIs, data models, validation, and automation.
• Build reliable control-plane software that reconciles desired and observed network state.
• Design safe change workflows with validation, dry runs, atomic updates, observability, and failure recovery.
• Integrate with data-center switch operating systems and management APIs while maintaining vendor-neutral abstractions where practical.
• Participate in the on-call rotation, troubleshoot active data-center network incidents, restore service, and turn root causes into lasting improvements.
• Review designs and code, explain networking trade-offs, and help raise network engineering quality across the organization.
• Develop lab and production tests and turn operational lessons into better software and architecture.

Skills

Ethernet switching

IP routing

BGP leaf-spine

EVPN/VXLAN

VRF multitenancy

Go

REST

gNMI/OpenConfig

NETCONF

Tools

REST

gNMI/OpenConfig

NETCONF

Job description

Mistral, a leader in full-stack AI solutions, seeks a Software Engineer, Network Automation - Data Center Fabrics to design and build systems for operating large-scale networks in our data centers.

You will apply deep networking expertise to leaf-spine architectures, automation, testing, and production troubleshooting across EVPN/VXLAN, BGP, VRFs, and related technologies, with Go and production-grade software practices.